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On Friday, March 1st, 2013, the Federal government introduced Bill C-56, the Combating Counterfeit Products Act. If passed, Bill C-56 would make signi...
This decision is part of the "copyright pentalogy" released by the Supreme Court of Canada on July 12, 2012, providing new guidance to rightsholders a...
This decision is part of the "copyright pentalogy" released by the Supreme Court of Canada on July 12, 2012, providing new guidance to rightsholders a...
Today, the Supreme Court of Canada issued its long-awaited decisions in the "copyright pentalogy". Dimock Stratton lawyers Ron Dimock and Sangeetha Pu...
This decision is part of the "copyright pentalogy" released by the Supreme Court of Canada on July 12, 2012, providing new guidance to rightsholders a...
This decision is part of the "copyright pentalogy" released by the Supreme Court of Canada on July 12, 2012, providing new guidance to rightsholders a...
This decision is part of the "copyright pentalogy" released by the Supreme Court of Canada on July 12, 2012, providing new guidance to rightsholders a...
On Thursday morning, the Supreme Court of Canada will release five eagerly-awaited decisions from five copyright appeals that were heard together on D...
Bill C-11, the Copyright Modernization Act, has been passed by the House of Commons and the Senate and received royal assent on Friday, June 29. The n...
Canada will have a new Copyright Act this summer. Bill C-11, An Act to Amend the Copyright Act, went through Third Reading late Monday night in the Ho...
The Supreme Court of Canada has granted leave to hear several appeals arising from the copyright infringement case Robinson et al. v. Cinar et al., 20...
The Supreme Court of Canada granted leave to hear an appeal in Alberta (Education) v. Access Copyright, 2010 FCA 198, a case in which the Federal Cour...
The Supreme Court of Canada will once again consider fair dealing after having granted leave to hear an appeal of Society of Composers, Authors and Mu...
This week, Parliament tabled Bill C-32, the most recent attempt to update the Copyright Act. Previous government attempts to amend the Copyright Act f...
While rightsholders await the new copyright reform bill expected to be introduced in Parliament in the near future, the Federal Court of Appeal issued...
Last month, after Parliament returned after another prorogue, Industry Minister Tony Clement promised that the government would introduce a new copyri...
In a September 16, 2009 decision (PDF), the Copyright Board refused to certify two tariffs proposed by the Neighbouring Rights Collective of Canada (N...
In Microsoft Corporation v. 1276916 Ontario Ltd., 2009 FC 849, the Federal Court granted a motion for default judgment against a company and its sole ...
In the copyright class action dispute between freelance writers and news media companies over the use of freelancers' articles in electronic data...
The United States placed Canada on its "Priority Watch List" of intellectual property rights violators this week. This is the first time that Canada h...
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